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Capturing the glide
2008-05-24 07:41:00 Whilst I have made multi-image montages of birds in flight before, i have found trying to use tools like autostitch, a little hit and miss, mainly because it is seldom that I have enough overlap for such automatic software to make seamless joins. So I have had to resort to more manual techniques. The three photos I took (show above) of a pacific gull landing on the beach, had enough surrounding detail to try out autostitch and it did find joins for the last two images and it is beautifully seamless. However autostitch refused to add in the first image, despite all my attempts twiddling with the overlap settings. I was therefore very surprised at how beautifully the windows Live Gallery make/panorama tool worked. i guess the only problem was the shift in the overlap because i was panning up as I was also panning horizontally. So I decided to make a feature of these joins, in the stepping black "matte".
Pacific Gull Sunset
2008-05-22 15:31:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pacific Gull Sunset , originally uploaded by imageo.
venus bay beach sunset
2008-05-19 02:49:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } venus bay beach sunset, originally uploaded by imageo. it was very cold but still worthy the effort to capture the last of the sun's ray. More About: Beach , Sunset , Venus
Photographing birds in flight
2008-05-07 09:00:00 Taking photos of birds in flight has become quite a personal challange. It is not that easy, they move fast, your don't get to choose the background or lighting, the list of issues goes on an on, BUT the results can be very pleasing. If you are interested there is a great group on flickr Field Guide: birds of the world and I like the second entry of their tips for better bird shots, 1. practice2. practice3. repeat More About: Birds , Flight
fleeting light
2008-05-06 12:35:00 Photographing a rainbow is difficult enough, but the light wasn't great and I wanted to try out a HDRi set and get a piece of driftwood in the foreground. Ok it didn't quite work because I can not get good registration on the images, because i was moving and it was hald held. Still the rainbow was spectacular. More About: Light
Almost Winter
2008-05-05 12:28:00 Autumn is drawing to an end and winter is drawing near More About: Winter
Thanks
2008-05-05 03:55:00 A special thank you to all those who attended my first "solo" exhibition opening on Sunday. Especially Kieran Kennedy for his well researched words as he opened the exhibition. For those that missed the opening the exhibition is on in the Meeniyan Art Gallery till 23rd May. Earth :: Water :: WindPhotography & Art Works by Norm HansonTHE ACCESS GALLERY May 4th-23rdMeeniyan Art Gallery84 Whitelaw St. Meeniyan 3956Meeniyan might be worth the visit if you are a fan of the ABC new drama Bed of Roses, much of it is filmed in this beautiful part of south gippsland.
Tiny beach houses at Sorong
2008-04-28 05:07:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tiny beach houses at Sorong , originally uploaded by imageo. These are the smallest house I have ever seen. Yes they are full houses not bathing boxes! More About: Beach , Houses
The roof repair guy
2008-04-26 13:34:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The roof repair guy, originally uploaded by imageo. Life is a lot slower and simpler out on the islands of papua. If the rook leak in the rain you don't have to rush to Bunnings, you just wait for the rain to stop and find a banana tree. Oh and yes you need to find the roof repair guy, he'll be siting in the shade More About: Roof , Repair
rice paddies
2008-04-25 03:07:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } rice paddies near makassa, originally uploaded by imageo. Aerial view of flooded rice padies near makassa More About: Rice
HDRi Jakarta Sunset
2008-04-22 11:02:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } HDRi Jakarta Sunset , originally uploaded by imageo. The bracketted set of photos, used to create this HDRi image, were taken without a tripod and with long exposures. So without dynamic photo's pinwarping this would have just been a triple exposure blur-out.
The Collages are getting bigger
2008-04-21 04:54:00 For those worried that I am neglecting my photography, don't stress. I am not! It is just that blogging has been a lower priority. I have been busy preparing for a solo exhibition at Meeniyan's Access Gallery (84 Whitelaw St. Meeniyan, Victoria Ph:(03) 5664 0101), from 4th to 18th. May. The Exhibitions is based around the themes of Earth, mainly rock paintings, Wind and Water, mainly photographic works with a big emphasis on photo mosaics (my photo impressions) and collages. Collections of photographic eggs will also debut.
nice lighting
2008-04-14 10:23:00 The dusk lighting of the clouds was specataluar tonight. More About: Lighting , Nice
The Engagment Party
2008-04-12 06:55:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The Engagment Party , originally uploaded by imageo. I must begin with considerable acknowledgement for inspiration from the work of a fellow VIC/TAS thread memeber of the Australian Photographers!! group on flickr, thescatteredimage and beyond that to david hockney. There is definitely something beautiful in these recompiled collages, hockney describes this finding his "lergy", in the distored perspective that shift slightly in time as well as space. I guess they tell more of essence than a single static image.
egg-cident
2008-04-12 02:55:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } egg-cident, originally uploaded by imageo. For Photo Friday's topic fragile
One flicker too many
2008-04-11 05:57:00 SAY NO! Originally uploaded by alatimed Flickr only announced its video service on Tuesday and the chorus of loyal flickr-ites saying NO was unbelievable. A fellow Australian Photographer!! Father McKenzie started a group to say NO to VIDEO on flickr and already it has 24,000 plus members. Surely flickr had done some market research! Or was this a yahoo play against Google-YouTube juggarnaught? Such immediate angst suggests that most are happy with flickr just as it is.So what is my opinion, I don't really have a strong one. From a bandwidth point of view there is already enough of it wasted on flickr already, and what was wrong with putting your video on YouTube anyway? Is competition going to improve that service or more importantly flickrs?I'm wondering if the flickr gods will be changing their motto from Flickr loves you, to Flickr who cares!
Why not make your portfolio into a video!
2008-04-01 04:05:00 Nature's Entryway Originally uploaded by Reggiesgirl Reggiesgirl from flickr has a used wonderful way to show her portfolio of nature photography, she made it into a video. With so many screens atound in modern life, making your still work into a video (or slideshow) is a great way to guarentee they will be seen (at least by your friends and family, but if you want your 15 seconds of "net fame" you cam also trust your arm on YouTube as reggie's girl did) There are any number of good programs (too many to mention here) with which make your slide show and convert them into a video masterpiece. Try Microsoft's Photo Story 3 if you are looking for a free program to try out. At the very least you probably already have Movie Make r which can also do the job. More About: Video , Portfolio
The secret worlds of tall trees
2008-03-30 11:18:00 These weird distortions where created by autostitch as I tried to create vertical panoramas from stacked images. Not quiet what i expected by strangely compelling images all the same More About: The Secret , Trees , Worlds , Secret , Tall
Decent rains at last!
2008-03-27 01:24:00 Photographing actual rain is a very complex task, its udsually very poor lighting, its falling fast and therefeore blurs in the slow exposre required, it usually has no center of interests, the list just goes on and on. So I have taken the simple way out, just photographing the effects and really zeroing in on just a small aspects, using the macro setting on my trusty telephoto zoom lens, the water droplettes on a grape vine. Still it tells the story well.
Giving Red Bubble a Go
2008-03-26 10:27:00 I have been looking around for a while for an "low fuss" but good quality way to sell my photos on-line. Basically I had concluded there wasn't one. Flickr gets you exposure, but has no commercial aspects, there are other places like Lulu, Cafe Press and Deviant Art, not to forget any number of self publishing stock photo sites, but to be sweepingly general without wanting to get involved in law suits they all exploit the artist, photographer or content creator. These guys are there to make a profits and take the lion share of sale price. I strongly suggest you read the fine print before signing in because you may give away ownership of your images without realising it. I have heard about RedBubble and decided to give it a try, sorry no glowing endorsement yet (I haven't sold anything, yet!). I thought just writing about joining up and what's going on in there might be interesting enough. What caught my eye was that red bubble just charge a fixed amount to produce and ... More About: Giving
HDR sunset
2008-03-25 11:46:00 HDR sunset, originally uploaded by imageo. This is all about colour & composition, the patterns of the silhouetted branches and intense colour on the clouds behind. HDRi image created with Dynamic Photo, using smooth compressor tone mapping. More About: Sunset
Six of the best
2008-03-22 12:37:00 Actually I hope you are out enjoying the Easter break, not spending time of the net, but if you are here. this is a great little on-line application that can create decorated eggs from your photos.
Immersive Slideshows?
2008-03-21 01:23:00 So what are immersive slideshows, as opposed to ... I don't know drowning (in) slideshows? They are the brainchild of Cooliris in the form of a browser plugin, called PicLens. It takes a number of common image intensive web places, social networking, photo sites, etc and converts them into a full screen "cinematic presentation" experience. It is very stylish, slick and unobtrusive (a watermarked "play" button is superimposed over the bottom right corner of images to indicate PiclLens can be run, just click your mouse on that, otherwise you don't notice its there)The real fun begins when you start looking at your own personal images on say flickr, photobucket or picassa web albums. I particularly like the "3D" photo wall (complete with reflection of a virtual shinny floor).My conclusion reflects that of a review in Wired Magazine, its "Fun and Addictive", but it is a pity it does not work with blogger. More About: Slideshows
Contemporary Artist Show
2008-03-18 06:34:00 The Venus Bay Contemporay artist show was good for me, I managed to sell all my works (see all the red stickers already at the opening). The Exhibit was open by well know local sculptor Colin Suggett, and had a strong inspiration based around the natural world. My "geological" impression of venus bay in 200 million years can be seen behind colin. More About: Artist , Show , Contemporary
HDR from on high
More articles from this author:2008-03-17 06:15:00 I think most frequent flyers will know the delight of watching the big billowing cumulus clouds from a plane in the late afternoon. The trouble is attempting to capture this with a digital camera pretty well always gives a disappointingly flat image, and thats before you start looking at the issues of photographing through glass. The real problem is the range of intensity in the light you are viewing, whilst your eye can handle it the camera's CCD sensors and light meter can not, so the camera will probably make some wrong decisions about the exposure. Isn't this exactly what HDR (high dynamic range) techniques are about? Of Course it is. So I took the required bracketed series, (hand held, there is so little room in an airplane seat these days a tripod is definitely out). Since the plane was moving and some clouds very near I had to use pin warping to get everything lining up between exposures. Then I used my favourite tone mapping regime in dynamic photo , it is called smooth co... More About: High 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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